Tom Conti
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Tom Conti (born November 22, 1941) is a Scottish actor, theatre director, and novelist.
Born Thomas Conti to an Italian father and an Irish Catholic mother in Paisley, Renfrewshire , Conti began working with the Dundee Repertory in 1959. He appeared on Broadway in Whose Life is it Anyway? in 1979. As of mid-2006, Conti is playing the lead in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell in London's Garrick Theatre.
Conti also is an accomplished film and television actor. Besides taking the leading role in the 1978 TV version of Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, he appeared in the Princess and the Pea episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guested on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of car advertisements in the UK.
Conti has appeared in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Reuben, Reuben, American Dreamer, Shirley Valentine, and Saving Grace (1985 film).
Conti's book The Doctor, about a former Secret Operations pilot with Intelligence Services, was published in 2004.
Conti has been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson since 1967, and their daughter Nina is an actress and ventriloquist.[1]
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[edit] Additional theatre credits
As an actor
- The Real Thing
- Chapter Two
- Present Laughter
- The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
- Romantic Comedy
- They're Playing Our Song
- The Devil's Disciple
As a director
- The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
- Present Laughter
- Otherwise Engaged
[edit] Awards
- National Board of Review for Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)
- Academy Award nomination as Best Actor (Reuben, Reuben)
- Golden Globe nominations for Reuben, Reuben and Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story
- Tony Award for Best Actor (Whose Life Is It Anyway?)
- Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play ('Whose Life is it Anyway?)
- Variety Club Award for Best Actor (Whose Life is it Anyway?)
